Israel reproved for their sins.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 760.

• Job 27.14.

d Deut. 28. 41,62. eDeut.31.17.

2 Kings 17.

18.

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d

HOSEA, X.

12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: woe also to them when I depart from them!

yea,

g

13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but

Ingratitude of Israel.

Pthe thorn and the thistle shall come
up on their altars; and they shall
say to the mountains, Cover us; and
to the hills, Fall on us.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 740.

p ch. 9. 6. q Is. 2. 19.

Luke 23.30. &9.6.

Rev. 6. 16.

9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the chil-ch. 9. 9. See 1 Sam. Ephraim shall bring forth his children of iniquity did not overtake them. dren to the murderer.

ch. 5. 6.

3

17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

according to the multitude of his fruit spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of
bhe hath increased the altars; accord-battle: the mother was dashed in
ing to the goodness of his land they pieces upon her children.
have made goodly images.

2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall 'break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

3 For now they shall say, We1 21 Kings 18. have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king

Matt. 6. 24. 7 Heb. behead.

e ch. 3. 4. & 11. 5. Mic. 4. 9. ver. 7.

? See Deut. 29. 18. Amos 5.7. & 6. 12. Acts 8. 23.

Heb. 12. 15.

g1 Kings 12.
28, 29.
ch. 8.5, 6.

h ch. 4. 15.

8 Or, Chemarim,

do to us?

4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of h Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is de

2Kings 23.5. parted from it.

Zeph. 1. 4. 11 Sam. 4. 21, 22. ch. 9. 11.

k ch. 5. 13. 1 ch. 11. 6.

m ver. 3, 15. 9 Heb. the face of the water.

n ch. 4. 15.

o Deut. 9. 21. 1 Kings 12. 80.

4

€ 2 Kings 18.

34.& 19. 13. dch. 13. 16.

4 Heb. the evil of your

15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel evil. utterly be cut off.

WI loved him, and called my

WHEN Israel was a child, then

cson out of Egypt.

2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

h

e ver. 7.

4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and Iwas to them & Lev. 26.13. as they that take off the yoke on their 6 It shall be also carried unto As-jaws, and I laid meat unto them. syria for a present to king Jareb: 5 T 'He shall not return into the Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own

counsel.

mAs for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 8The high places also of Aven, • the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed:

land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall
be his king, because they refused to

return.

h Ps. 78. 25. ch. 2. 8.

1 See ch. 8.

13. & 9.3. 12 Kings 17.

13, 14.

cir. 728. They be

6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his came tribubranches, and devour them, 'because of their own counsels.

taries toSalmanasser.

1 ch. 10. 6.

HOSEA, XII.

7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: "though they called them to the most High, 2none at all would exalt him.

8 ° How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as P Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? "mine heart is turned within me, my repent& 19. 24, 25. ings are kindled together.

p Gen. 14. 8.

Deut. 29. 23. Amos 4. 11. a Deut. 32. 36.

Is. 63. 15.
Jer. 31. 20.
r Num. 23.
19.

Is. 55. 8, 9.
Mal. 3. 6.

9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine ange I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall t Zech. 8. 7. tremble from the west.

s Is. 31. 4. Joel 3. 16. Amos 1. 2.

provoke God.

pro

10 PI have also spoken by the phets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, 'their altars areas heaps in the furrows of the fields. 12 And Jacob 'fled into the country of Syria, and Israel "served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lora return unto him.

CHAPTER XIII.

Ephraim's glory, by reason of idolatry,
vanisheth. 5 God's anger for their unkind-
9 A promise of God's mercy. 15 A
judgment for rebellion.

ness.

HEN Ephraim spake trem-
W
bling, he exalted himself in 2 Kings 17.
Israel; but a when he offended in. 2.
Baal, he died.

6 Heb. they add to sin.

& 8.4.

2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten bch. 2. 8. images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen:

wind: say of the men or, the

he daily increaseth lies and desola-
tion; and they do make a covenant
with the Assyrians, and oil is carried
into Egypt.

2 The LORD hath also a controGen. 25.26. versy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

a prince, or, behaved himself princely.

f Gen. 32. 24, &c.

Gen. 28.12,

19. & 35. 9, 10, 15.

Ex. 3. 15. ch. 14. 1.

Mic. 6. 8.

k Ps. 37. 7.

6 Or, Canaan:

See Ezek. 16. 3.

4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept,and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

6 Therefore turn thou to thy Prov. 11.1. God: keep mercy and judgment, and *wait on thy God continually.

Amos 8. 5.
¡Or,deceive.

m Zech.11.5.
Rev. 3. 17.

7 ¶ He is a merchant, the ba8 Or, all my lances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to 'oppress.

labours

suffice me not: he shall have

sacrifice kiss the calves.

sacrificers of men.

1 Kings 19.

18.

3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dewach. 6. 4. that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

5 h I did know thee in the wilderness,' in the land of great drought.1 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore 1have they forgotten me.

8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there 8 And Ephraim said, m Yet I am will I devour them like a lion: the punishment become rich, I have found me out sub-wild beast shall tear them. stance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

of iniquity

in whom is sin.

• Heb. which.

n ch. 13. 4.

9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the Zech. 14.16. days of the solemn feast.

• Lev. 23. 42, 43.

Neh. 8. 17.

9 TO Israel, Pthou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. 10 2I will be thy king: "where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

8

15 ¶ Though he be fruitful among |
his brethren, an east wind shall come,
Rom.11.29. the wind of the LORD shall come up1his beauty shall be as the olive tree,

Othy God; for thou hast fallen the LORD are right, and the just shall 3 15. 57.

2 Take with you words, and turn | shall fall therein.

JOE L.

a Jer. 4. 5. ver. 15.

5 Or, cornet.

b Num. 10. 5,9.

• ch. 1. 15. Obad. 15. Zeph. 1. 14, 15.

d Amos 5. 18, 20.

ever. 5, 11,

25.

ch. 1. 6.

Ex. 10. 14.

6 Heb. of generation

and generation.

8 ch.1.19,20.

17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

18 How do a the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the 'pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

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20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. CHAPTER II.

1 He sheweth unto Zion the terribleness of
God's judgment.
pentance, 15 prescribeth a fast, 18 promiseth
a blessing thereon. 21 He comforteth Zion
with present, 28 and future blessings.

12 He exhorteth to re

God's judgments.

desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing
shall escape them.

4 The appearance of them is as
the appearance of horses; and as
horsemen, so shall they run.

5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, m as a strong people set in battle array.

BRFORB CHRIST cir. 800.

Rev. 9. 7.

1 Rev. 9. 9.

m ver. 2.

6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: "all faces shall Jer. 8. 21. gather 2 blackness.

7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks :

Lam. 4. 8. Nah. 2. 10. 2 Heb. pot.

8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, Or, dart. they shall not be wounded.

3

9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before this army: for his camp is very great: "for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; andy who can abide it?

"BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, the evil.

and sound an alarm in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

2oA day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

3 A fire devoureth before them; Gen. 2. 8. and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden Zech.7.14. before them, and behind them a

14" Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

o Jer. 9. 21.

P John 10.1.

a Ps. 18. 7.
Is. 13. 10.

Ezek. 82.7.
ver. 31.
ch. 3. 15.

Matt. 24.29.

■ Jer. 25. 30.
ch. 3. 16.

Amos 1.2.
ver. 25.
Rev. 18. 8.
Jer. 30. 7.

u Jer. 50.34.

Amos 5. 18.
Zeph. 1. 15.
Num. 24.

23.

Mal. 3. 2.

■ Jer. 4. 1.
Hos. 12. 6.
& 14. 1.

a Ps. 84. 18.
& 51. 17.
b Gen.37.34.
2 Sam. 1.11.

30. 20.
Ex. 34. 6.
Jonah 4.2.

Ps. 86. 5,15.

15 & Blow the trumpet in Zion, Is. 65. 8. sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

Hag. 2. 19. fch. 1.9, 13. g Num.10.3.

ver. 1.

h ch. 1. 14.

1 Ex. 19.10,

22.

16 Gather the people, 'sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, I gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: mlet the bride-ch. 1. 14. groom go forth of his chamber, and 13. the bride out of her closet.

17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them,

1 2 Chr. 26.

m 1 Cor.7.8.

Ezek.8.16.

Matt. 23.35.